Maternal Employment Guilt and Health Promoting Behavior: Assessing the Predicting Role of Social Support

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to explain the impact of perceived social support on maternal employment guilt and health promoting behavior among working teachers in Pakistan. Data was collected from (N=600). Purposive sampling has been used. The study is quantitative in nature. The main instruments used in the study were Perceived Social Support‎ contained 5 items, Maternal Employment Guilt ‎contained 15 items and Wellness Behavior Inventory contained 12 items. To test the hypothesis, descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression analysis were used.  It was hypothesized that there is a significant impact of perceived social support on maternal employment guilt and there is a significant impact of perceived social support on health-promoting behavior. The results concluded that there was a significant influence of perceived social support on maternal employment guilt and health promoting behavior of working teachers whereas, the Perceived social support was positively correlated to wellness behavior inventory and wellness behavior inventory was negatively linked with maternal employment and guilt. On the other hand, that there was a negative relationship between maternal employment guilt and health promoting behavior of working teachers.